The Coal That Changed Blaise Pascal's Life
On the night of November 23, 1654, the brilliant French mathematician Blaise Pascal had an encounter so overwhelming that he could barely find words for...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Isaiah 6:1-8.
On the night of November 23, 1654, the brilliant French mathematician Blaise Pascal had an encounter so overwhelming that he could barely find words for it. For two hours, beginning around 10:30 PM, Pascal experienced what he later described simply as "FIRE." He was so undone by the presence of the living God that he scribbled his experience onto a scrap of parchment — raw, fragmented, almost incoherent with awe.…
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